My son is considering buying a Ryobi 18 V electric drill battery pack
and charger to replace the two wearing out Ryobi ni-cad battery packs
and two non-functioning Ryobi chargers that he presently has. One
charger was for nicads, the other charger was for nicads and lithium
batteries. Now he charges the batteries using a separate power supply
and says the electric drill itself is fine, the batteries are getting
weak.

SInce he is very carefull about his electrical and electronic stuff,
he is pretty sure he has not done anything to cause the battery
chargers to fail. He is concerned that buying a Ryobi lithium battery
pack and nicad/lithium battery charger may be a bad investment since
the two other chargers were not reliable. He notes that the new ni-
cad/lithium charger he is thinking about buying is almost twice as
big as the old non-functioning dual charger, so maybe Ryobi or their
supplier has learned something.

Anyway, he would like to hear comments from others in this group about
their experiences with Ryobi products.